OpenText LoadRunner Cloud Other Solutions Considered

DP
Cloud Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I did a PoC with other tools such as Flood, NeoLoad, and BlazeMeter. In my company, we are supporting multiple protocols testing. For web and API testing, any tool is good, but when it comes to RDP and Citrix protocols, LoadRunner is at the top in the market for supporting all different protocols.

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PH
Performance & Analytics Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did a complete RFP process with multiple vendors with an open mind, but LoadRunner did win the process. We looked at BlazeMeter and k6. LoadRunner stood out in terms of features and the protocols it supported. It had the most features and the largest protocol support. The other vendors have not caught up yet. I know they are working on it, but LoadRunner has got that advantage right now. Others are behind on protocols. 

With all the vendors, we sat down for a long three-hour demo and did a day in the life. We showed them what we do with Silk Performer and asked them to show us how we would do this in their tool. LoadRunner won hands down. It was obviously not the same, but they could reproduce almost everything. It is a better tool. With other tools, we found big gaps. k6 had some gaps, and BlazeMeter had some gaps. They are not bad tools, but for what my team does, they would have handicapped us.

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SamirPatle - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Analyst at EPAM Systems

There are other tools that provide the cloud capabilities and key features that LoadRunner has, but LoadRunner‘s brand and trustworthiness are more important to me.

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AB
Lead Performance Test Engineer at bol.com BV

We tried Neoload and looked at JMeter. We chose LoadRunner because that was the only performance testing tool that had something like TruClient.

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PavanKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We have looked into other tools and find that this tool, although expensive, has many useful features. 

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MD
Sr. Technical Test Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have extensively used JMeter as a performance testing tool. JMeter is free and also enables codeless scripting. Even without coding you can try running scripts. But where there is no comparison between JMeter and LoadRunner is when it comes to distributing load. LoadRunner stands out. With JMeter, it's very difficult to distribute the load. 

When it comes to creating reports, Loadrunner is best. You will spend most of your time analyzing what's happened with the test, analyzing bottlenecks and pain points with the performance parameters. But in JMeter, you have to manually collect everything: collate the results and produce the reports. Then you need to do a detailed analysis to find the bottlenecks and resource patterns. It is very difficult, but it's free. If you have the skill set and the time, you can use JMeter. But if you are time-constrained, and you want to actually concentrate on performance testing, use LoadRunner.

LoadRunner Cloud provides application performance and management tools to an extent, but not to the extent of New Relic or Splunk. We predominantly use New Relic to monitor application performance and in some cases we use Dynatrace as well. But LoadRunner Cloud doesn't have complete application performance monitoring metrics.

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AK
Senior Performance Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The other product we considered was BlazeMeter. We eventually chose StormRunner. I think only those two are pretty much in the market - nothing else.

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it_user468114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Not really because we're mostly an HPE shop and this was working with HPE they to meet our needs, so they provided this and it's worked out great.

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it_user230619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Architect at Gallop Solutions

We have evaluated HP StormRunner Load against other market competitors that include Blazemeter, SOASTA’s Cloud Test, NeoLOAD, VSTS, Load Complete and StressStimulus.

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it_user468132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant/Partner at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I'm an HPE partner. I don't look anywhere else.

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it_user251874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no other solutions evaluated.

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it_user567969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We compared it to LoadRunner and Performance Center because we use that currently for load and performance tests. We cannot use this solution in the cloud. StormRunner is very rudimentary at this time, but it's a great concept. We hope that it will be thrilling.

We chose StormRunner because of the cloud. That's a great part of it.

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it_user232020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluate a lot of testing tools. NeoLoad, LoadRunner, we prefer HP.

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it_user272247 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Team Lead with 501-1,000 employees

No, this was my first choice.

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it_user739593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Performance engineer

We chose this one because of the name. It's established, the last decade. We used to be with this company. Micro Focus is more than seven or eight years, we're good with them, they are good with us.

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it_user54837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director - Quality Assurance at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Looked briefly at Neotys…actively doing a POC of CloudTest for comparison purposes.

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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud
March 2024
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